It is coming people..

image source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03tier.html

For those of you who know me.. I am paranoid by a few things that are maybe slightly irrational. One: China controls the weather.. and may one day use it to control the world. Two: We make no sense if every reaction wants to achieve Entropy. Three, and most importantly for today, we are going to put ourselves in a matrix (UNLESS WE ARE ALREADY IN ONE!?). Okay.. point of today's entry is that Intel has announced that by 2020 chips in our brains will control computer.. not keyboards and computer mice (is that the plural of this kind of mouse?). The article is found here.

Basically, Researchers at Intel's research lab in Pittsburgh are attempting to decode brain waves and tagging them to meaning so someone could surf the Internet by the power of thought. The brain is too complicated for that you say? Well.. it does work the same way a computer does in many ways.. just a series of inputs and consequential outputs. The article details that when a person thinks about a bear or hears a bear growl.. similar brain waves and brain activity occurs. The chip would be surgically implanted and it would harness the power of your brain waves.

Sounds cool? But let us think about this for a minute. Pros.. education would be a Montessori school of wondrous exploration for the next generation. The concept that a child could explore every thought is intriguing and would produce a lot of very gifted people. Second, it would be absurd how much faster you could research something. For me.. I am a visual learner, and if I could just imagine what I was thinking of instead of verbalizing.. I would be in good business.
Cons.. this is a surgery plugging you into the Internet at all times. I like turning the computer off and reading.. if you had a surgery, I wonder if it would feel the same turning the computer off. Second, You think kids have no attention span? When there is so much information out there to explore and free TV online.. could you ever really focus on one thing? I am not sure I could. Third, there is equally as much bad information available to consume someone life online that is not productive.. deliciously trashy celebrity gossip.. crazy people's new religions.. etc. Would people ever come outside for the light of day.. the list goes on.

The article does bring up a good point that years ago if you said everyone would have a cell phone on them all the time, you would be looked at strangely and not conceive it as true. Cell phones are basically tiny computers with the iPhone's and g1's in the world. It is unavoidable to stop progress, and it may be inevitable to avoid embracing curiosity of a machine-human intelligence combination.. but I want to make mistakes and over sleep! I don't want to be a machine. Maybe I am alone. Here are some more articles for those interested. One, Two, and Three.